Archaeological conferences in September – at home and abroad
Members of Momentum Mobility research group were participants of three conferences in this September. The 24th Annual Conference of the European Association of Archaeologists was held between in Barcelona, between 5-8 September 2018. Through this year’s motto, the organizers wanted to express that archaeological research is not only the science of the past, but it also reflects the challenges of our present and can offer answers to today’s questions as well. More than three thousand people attended the conference from Europe and from overseas. A brief summary of the lectures held in 170 sessions can be found in the two-part abstract volume.
Team members of our research project co-authored several lectures on archaeological and geoarchaeological methods and new achievements in the research of Bronze Age tell settlements, e.g. in the sessions entitled Current approaches to tells and tell-like sites in the Prehistoric Old World (szervezők: Antonio Blanco-González, Tobias L. Kienlin), as well as Geoarchaeology of Bronze Age Europe (szervezők: Cristiano Nicosia, Gianna Ayala, Stefan Dreibrodt, Jakub Niebieszczański, Pető Ákos). In addition, Gabriella Kulcsár and Viktória Kiss organized a session on food preparation, lifestyle and environmental history in the Bronze Age, together with the researchers of the Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archeology of University of Kiel, Germany: Wiebke Kirleis, Jutta Kneisel and Dragana Filipović. Here, 11 lectures and 5 posters summarized the currently available interdisciplinary data on Bronze Age food production, preparation and consumption throughout various European regions (mainly in the Mediterraneum and Central Europe).
We attended an international interdisciplinary conference on childhood research (SSCIP Conference) between 20-22 September, which was organized by the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology – OREA and the Museum of Natural History (NhM Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) in Vienna. From the lectures we could learn about the research questions on lifestyle and social role of children and mothers, as well as the perception of childhood in various areas – from prehistoric times until recently. The results of the research on the burials of Early and Middle Bronze Age children and young people in Transdanubia were presented by Eszter Melis.
Archiv photograph of the excavation of the tell-settlement of Jászdózsa (1966-1975)
The scientific meeting in honour of Dr. Ilona Stanczik, held between 27-28th September at Jászberény and Jászdózsa was jointly organized by the Jász Museum in Jászberény, the Foundation for the Jász Museum, the János Damjanich Museum in Szolnok and the Local Government of Jászdózsa Municipality. During the two days of the conference, 18 lectures reviewed the work of Dr. Ilona Stanczik, the methodology of the research of the Bronze Age tell settlements and the results of the latest excavation projects, among others the one, carried out by our team members in Kakucs microregion.
Cover photo: Jászsági Térségi TV
